retired and quiet; secluded
even though things may appear this way
five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes; five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); (fig.) the five periods of the Buddha's teachings
(the) way home; return trip; (the) way back
diminutive used with names, etc.; diminutive adjective ending
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
interview (e.g. for a job)
being present (at the same meeting, occasion, etc.); attendance (with); sitting with; same (seating) precedence; same rank
idea; plan; draft; rough copy; expectation; (arch.) desk
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
common name; popular name; secular name; bad reputation
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
layman (esp. as opposed to a Buddhist monk); laity; local manners; modern customs; common; popular
wickedness; evil; calamity; disaster
five-part gravestone representing earth, water, fire, wind and heaven
latter period; second half; late stage; third trimester; second semester
for example; for instance; e.g.
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends); planetary ring
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
counter for wheels and flowers
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
representative; exemplary; model
things left (to one) by the deceased; inherited item; estate; lost item; lost property
work (e.g. book, film, painting, composition); piece; production; opus
district; county; district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryō period); commandery (in China)
dhyana-samadhi (meditative concentration); ascetic practice atop a sacred mountain (in Shugendō); mountain top
Yoshino period (Japan's Northern and Southern Courts period, esp. from the viewpoint of the legitimacy of the Southern Court, 1336-1392)
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
(ancient) Japan; Yamato kingdom; Yamato (former province located in present-day Nara Prefecture); Yamato (battleship)
fashion; trend; vogue; prevalence (of a disease); epidemic
(written) work; book; writings